SARASIN, Paul Benedict. Basel 11.12.1856 — Basel 7.4.1929. Swiss Naturalist and Ethnologist. Son of politician Karl Sarasin (1815–1886) and Elisabeth Sauvain (1829–1918), a wealthy family, second cousin of —> Fritz Sarasin (1859–1942), with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. School and medical studies in Basel. Together with his cousin he…
SARASIN, Fritz (Karl Friedrich). Basel 3.12.1859 — Lugano 23.3.1942.Swiss Naturalist. Son of cotton factory owner and politician Felix Sarasin (1797–1862) and Rosalia Brunner (1826–1908), second cousin of —> Paul Sarasin (1856–1929), with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. Studied natural sciences at Geneva and Basel, where he met his cousin.…
RYBOT, Norman Victor Lacey. Jersey 7.1.1874 — Jersey 18.5.1961. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel George Oliver Rybot (1827–1912) of Bengal Artillery and Victoria Baker (1838–1913). Joined Indian army in 1897, posted in the Punjab. In 1903-04 participated as Lieutenant in Younghusband’s expedition to Lhasa. In WW I in Suez…
ROYEN, Gerlach (born Nicolaus Jacobus Hubertus Royen). Valkenburg, Limburg 18.10.1880 — Utrecht 4.2.1955. O.F.M. Father. Dutch Linguist. Educated in Sittard, joined O.F.M. 1898, ordained priest 1905. In 1905-11 teacher at Franciscan gymnasium in Venray, 1911-14 and 1920-22 studied comparative linguistics at Leiden. Ph.D. 1926 Leiden, under Uhlenbeck (being his last student). From…
ROUSSEAU, Pierre Édouard Léon (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Physician, Composer and Painter. Son of a physician. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 physician in the army. After 1926 seriously ill (multiple myeloma). He was rather noted composer with wide production of different genres (including…
ROSSET, Carl Wilhelm. Freiburg i. Br. 24.4.1851 — Duderstadt near Göttingen 18.6.1923. German Merchant, Adventurer and Collector. In 1874-76 travelled in Africa, in 1881 in the Near East. In 1881 also participated in Riebeck expedition to Socotra, 1884 to Ceylon. In 1885 he spent two months in the Maldives, stayed…
ROSS, Alan Strode Campbell. 1.2.1907 — Birmingham 23.9.1980. British Linguist. Son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross of Penzance and Millicent Strode Cobham. Educated at Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon. From 1925 studies at Balliol College, Oxford, started with astronomy, but soon moved to English. B.A. 1929 Oxford, M.A. Birmingham. From…
ROSE, Eugen. Barmen, Rheinland 4.7.1909 — Erkrath in Ruhrgebiet 5.8.2003. German Priest, former Student of Indology. Son of Walter Rose (d. 1918) and Caroline Schneider. From 1929 studied Theology and Indology at Marburg, Königsberg und Bonn. Ph.D. 1933 Bonn. Ordained 1934, worked as vicar in Deutz, but soon dismissed as…
RÖSSING, Hans. Duisburg 13.12.1929 — 7.5.2001 (when 71). German Linguist (Celtologist). Son of an engineer. Educated in Duisburg, Homberg and Weilburg. Then studies at Marburg from 1950, Ph.D. there 1958. From 1961 Assistant at Marburg. PD Marburg 1969, from 1971 Professor of comparative linguistics at Marburg, retired 1995. Married Monika…
ROBINSON, William Rose. Midlothian 28.6.1822 — London 27.4.1886. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of the elder W. R. Robinson (1781–1834), the Sheriff of Lanarkshire, and Mary Douglas (1783–1864), educated in Bonn. After Haileybury joined I.C.S. in 1842. In the 1840s Head Assistant Collector of Malabar, in 1847 inspected…